ibm systems director 6.1: technical overview presenter: tony

IBM Platform Management

© 2008 IBM CorporationIBM Confidential

IBM Systems Director 6.1: Technical Overview

Presenter:Tony Abbondanzio


IBM Systems and Technology Group | © 2008 IBM CorporationIBM Confidential2

Highlights

• Strategy Overview

• Functional and Architectural Overview

• User Experience



Director 6.1 Functional & Architectural Overview



Platform management must provide core systems management functions

– Out-of-the box

– Consistent support across System X servers, RSA, BladeCenter, Hypervisors (i.e. Monitoring, Deployment, etc)

Platform Management must integrate with Enterprise Management

– Platform management data and interfaces must be available thru Enterprise Management products

– Strategically provided thru collaboration with 3rd Parties leveraging standardized manageability interfaces

– High level of integration with Tivoli involving common user interfaces

3rd party products must be addressed

– Tivoli, BMC, CA, HP, EMC, etc are among the key 3rd party ISVs

– Support for system platform aspects, such as virtualization, must be driven into this product

Advantage IBM Management Products

– More seamless integration with IBM products

System Management Continuum

Platform Management Focus Inventory and Asset Management Physical & Virtual Server Management Update/Patch Management Deploy and Provisioning Base Monitoring Event Management System Planning Power Management Manageability Interfaces

Enterprise Management Focus

Enterprise Monitoring Enterprise Event Mgmt Network Management Performance Management Capacity Management Automated Provisioning S/W Lifecycle Management Service Management Change & Config Mgmt Scheduling

Workload Management Identity & Access Mgmt Security Management Compliance Data Management Storage Management Availability Mgmt Process Management

Entitled Enterprise

Capabilities (Tivoli)

STG Resources must be supported across key management capabilities areas and products



Integrated Platform Management Strategy

StorageSystem p

BladeCenter System i

System z

HMC / iNavBladeCenter MM

HMC / IVMHMC / zMC

Element Management

SCM

IBM Systems Director

Integrated Platform

Management

Tivoli Product Family

Enterprise Management

Non-IBM

(CA, HP, etc)

Cross Pillar Integration Strategy Task Integration/Simplification

Development Integration

Cross Product Integration

Integrate Industry leading Solutions

IBM Offering Integration



What is Platform Management?

Primary objective is care and feeding of the system platform

– Tell me what I have

– Let me configure, install, and tweak it

– Tell me if it‟s working

– Let me update it

Platform Management Offerings provides tools for managing our physical and virtual resources like

– Find, identify and correlate physical and virtual servers on the network

– Provide health status and alerts

– Configure and deploy new systems

– Optimize systems for peak performance

– Update system firmware and drivers

Provides overall “system” view and full Lifecycle Management across multiple resource types



Platform Management Scenario… • Director eliminates the need to use

other UIs, multiple info sources

• Uses wizards and canned configs to

eliminate steps

Without Director– 16 steps after HW setup

– 7 UIs (switching back and forth)

– 9 Information sources

– No UI guides the user through the steps or controls the flow

With Director–6 steps after HW setup

–1 UI

–2 Information sources

–Director can control the task flow



IBM Systems Director 6.1 Main Objectives

Provide basic systems management of our platform resources

– Design for Manageability by leveraging industry standards

– Quickly meet the platform specific requirements

End-to-End User Experience must be easy to use

– Simplification: Install, Upgrade, Console, Tasks, etc

– Reduce cost of ownership: Deployment, Configuration, Monitoring, etc

Seamless interoperability with enterprise systems management

– Platform specific tools to IBM Systems Director to Tivoli offerings

– Upward integration into 3rd party enterprise systems management products like CA UniCenter, MS SCOM, etc.

Create an ecosystem for ISVs & IHVs to easily extend our systems management offering

– Provide a toolkit based on industry standards using easy to use development environments



High Level Customer Value for Brands

Common Scenarios

A unified product offering with a single user interface and

converged management stack that will aggregate the lifecycle

management tasks for the brand’s physical and virtual

resources:

Visualization of the discovered network resource and their

relationships to other resources in the network

Inform the administrator of systems with problems (dynamically

via console, page, email..)

Allow the administrator to drill down to diagnose system

problems and take some action

Notify the administrator when a system needs a critical

hardware/operating system related update

Let the administrator schedule tasks against one or more

systems like the install of a critical update

Provide status views on the current live data metrics &

thresholds across both physical and virtual resources

Notify the administrator when a systems has triggered a custom

resource threshold

Allow the administrator to easily configure resource settings and,

if needed, create a configuration plan that can be applied to one

or more system with similar resources

Allow the administrator to incrementally add extension (new

managers) to the base offering for more advanced management

Managed Resources

Power Systems resources that can be managed:

HMC, IVM, VIOS,

Power Servers

AIX, pLinux, i5OS

Modular Systems resources that can be managed:

BladeCenter, Server Blades (X, Power, Cell),

Switch Modules, System X Servers

VMWare(Neptune), MSVS, Xen

Windows, xLinux

Enterprise Systems resources that can be managed:

z/VM,

zLinux

Storage resources that can be managed:

LSI (IRC), DS3000, DS4000, DS6000, RSSM



Architectural Overview

© 2006 IBM Corporation

Evolution of Platform Management

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MDirector

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Common Agent

Sub-agent Tasks

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Automation Management

Virtual Systems Mgmt

OS Bare Metal Deployment

Inventory, Monitoring, etc

Platform Management

WebSphere / OSGi

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Capabilitie

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Provide easy to use, function rich base platform & server management with plug-in extensibility for 3rd

party solutions

Provide management services for on Demand solutions thru standards based interfaces and

componentization

Enable out of the box management for servers & storage via “Design for Manageability” with a common

management stack integrated with our products.

2005 Future

TivoliAgent

High Availability

Web Based Console

Live Update for mgmt stack

Remote Control vs 3rd Party?

VMM to heterogeneous Virtualization Systems Management?


Building Blocks and Product Offerings result from component-oriented development …

Packaging Relationships Lifecycle Relationships

Functional Relationships

Capabilities

Interfaces

Common

Component

Common

Component

Offering

Assembly Assembly

Common

Component


USMi (Universal Systems Management initiative): Componentization / Re-Use

SWG

• Tivoli Remote Access API (RXA)

• Tivoli Agent Manager

• Tivoli Common Agent Services

• Tivoli Embedded TPM

• Tivoli SNMP Library

• Tivoli Common Inventory Collection

(CIT)

• Tivoli CMDB running on OSGi

• SWG Pervasive, OSGi

• Lotus WebSphere Everyplace

Deployment (WED)

STG

• LTC Open Pegasus

• Topology, Discovery Services

(RDS/IBM Director)

• IBM SLP v2

• Grouping, tasking (interactive /

non-interactive) - IBM Director

• eCC (electronic Care) Common

Client

Open Source

• SBLIM CIM Client

• Apache Derby

• Open Pegasus

• OpenSSH

• OpenSSL

contributecontribute

Console

CM

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WS

-*

Mgmt Services

Agent

SD

K

Plug-in

Plug-in

Plug-in

USMi

Many new offerings are recreating core management services and extensions with their own

usage paradigms that are unrelated to similar tools for performing the same tasks. USMi moves

us towards consistency in our offerings…

IBM Community Source Link: https://cs.opensource.ibm.com/projects/usmi/


Offering / Product Options

Components

&

Assemblies

Agent-less

Assembly

Lite-Agent

Assembly

Rich-Agent

AssemblyConsole

Assembly

Mgmt Services

Assembly

Lite-Agent

Assembly

Console

Assembly

CM

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W

S-*

Mgmt Services

Assembly

Console

Assembly

CM

D L

ine

W

S-*

Mgmt Services

Assembly

Rich-Agent

Assembly

Runtimes

SupportedPlatform

Specific

Platform

Specific OSGi / LWIOSGi / LWI

WAS 6.1

OSGi / LWI

WAS 6.1

CMD Line, WS-*

Rich-Agent

Assembly

Console

Assembly

Mgmt Services

Assembly

CMD Line, WS-*

Lite-Agent

Assembly

Console

Assembly

Mgmt Services

Assembly

CMD Line, WS-*

Command Line

Agent-less

Assembly

Command Line

Console

Assembly

Mgmt Services

Assembly

CMD Line, WS-*

Server

Instance =

Agent-less

Assembly

Command Line

Mgmt Services

Assembly

CMD Line, WS-*

Offerings

“Made-To-Order Systems Management” building block approach to creating multiple offerings… IBM

community source: http://cs.opensource.ibm.com/projects/usmi/


External Components

USMI Component List

Group Management Discovery

Automation Manager( EAP)

Scheduler

Alert Management

User Access Admin (Auditing, License)

Event Log ViewerResource Navigation

Health Summary

Inventory

Update Management

Launch in Context

Welcome

Error Message / Help

Credential Trans

Score Board

Native SLP Library

CIM API via DCT

CIM API via DCT

CIM Listener

CIM API via Full CIMOM

User Admin Services

Credential Tran Services

eT

PM

Au

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erv

ices

RXA Services Common Agent ServicesSNMP Client Library

Common Collection Engine

Schedule Services

Command LineAuditing Services

Event Services

Group Services

Notification ServicesPersistent Services

Status ServicesTask Services

SLP Services

Discovery Services

DB Services

Relationship Services

Acquisition Services

Collection Services

CIM API via Full CIMOM

WED / LWI

Pegasus

Native SLP Service

Core USMi/CLI Agent Services

Agent Deployer Service

Agent Security Service

Collection Bundle

Console

Assembly

Mgmt Services

Assembly

Rich-Agent

Assembly

Agent-less

AssemblyLite-Agent

Assembly

SSHDCOM

SNMP Agent

SFCB

CAS

USMi Event Bundle

Install Services

USMi Kernel

ISC

CIM Client Services

SMASH Toolkit

DCM

Tivoli / SWG Components


Director (Hatteras) Industry Standards / Extensibility

Console Industry Standard Interfaces JSR168 Portlets Java Server Faces (JSF) Other technologies: JWL, AUIML, iLog

Management Server Industry Standard Interfaces Extensibility

• Open Source OSGI service interfacing

• Open Source Eclipse extensibility

• JSR47 Logging

• Configuration Management Database via embedded Tivoli Provision Manager (eTPM)

• WS-Security, SSL, JAAS for authentication and authorization

Client Interfaces for Endpoint• JSR48 WBEM CIM client API

– SWMG Profile

– SMI-S Profile

– Support for CIM over WS-MAN

• RFC 2608 SLP Discovery protocol

• SSH, DCOM, SNMP

External Interfaces• Web Services interfaces to base function

• WSRF based interfaces to eTPM’s Data Common Model (DCM)

• Command line interfaces based on POSIX/GNU standards

Agent Industry Standards JSR48 WBEM CIM client API RFC 2608 SLP Discovery protocol SSH\DCOM DMTF CIM Infrastructure v2.3 DMTF CIM Schema v2.12 DMTF SMASH Profiles v1.1 DMTF CIM Operations over HTTP, v1.2 DMTF SMASH CLP v1.1 Web Services via Tivoli Common Agent Services

Technology Enabler:

Integrated Solution Console (ISC)

Eclipse runtime based on Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi)

OpenGroup Pegasus CIMOM

USMi Console, Server, Agent Assemblies

Aperi (Open Storage Management)

Bold = added with Director 6.1 / USMi based



IBM Director

Agent Level 0

Windows, all Linux

Operating

System

Resources

IBM Director

Server

Linux on xSeries/zSeries/Power, AIX, Windows

BladeCenterHMCRSAFSP

SNMP DeviceSMI-S Storage

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IBM Director 5.x/6.xAgent Level 1

Windows, all Linux

IBM Director 5.x

Level 2 Legacy Agent

Windows, all Linux,

AIX, i5/OS, Netware

IBM Level 2 Rich Agent

Windows, all Linux, AIX, i5/OS

Xenz/VMLPARWPAR

IVMVMWareMSVS

OSGi Service Platform

Director Features

Virtual

Resources

Physical

ResourcesCIM

SNMP

SLP

SSH

DCOM

IPMI

Manageable Endpoints

• Sample of Resource types

supported

IBM Systems Director Architecture

HTTP IPC

Platform Enablement

Common Core

Legacy

Java

Task

SNMP

CIM (SMI-S, SMWG…)

SSH

SLP

WS-MAN

Proprietary (mm/rsa, other)

Plug Points

Plug Points

Plug Points

• Single Web Based Console for managing platform resources

•BladeCenter, Storage, Switches, System X, I, P, Z

•Integrated Virtualization Management

• Central Management Server – Discovery, Health, Configuration, Updates, Reporting, Remote Control, Automation

• Standard based endpoint management – CIM, SNI-S, SNMP, SSH, DCOM, SLP, etc.

•Common Agent Services with Tivoli

•Open and modular toolkit for 3rd party extensibilityToolkit Link: http://wilson.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/usmitk/v1r0/index.jsp

User Interface

• Web Based Console

with some launch in

Context

• Task integration and

Simplification

Management Server

• Common Platform Model

and Access methods

• All the base enablement

for TPM entitled with STG

platforms

Advanced Managers / Tivoli



Provides base data access and operation for hardware alerts and inventory to 3rd Party Enterprise System Management Solutions via Director Level 1 agent

Tivoli Enterprise

– Framework 3.7.1 and 4.1.1

– TEC 3.8 and 3.9

– Distributed Monitoring 5.1.1

– Configuration Manager 4.2.x

– Software Distribution 4.0

– Inventory 4.0

Tivoli NetView 7.1.x

CA Unicenter TNG 2.4,

CA NSM 3.0, 3.1

HP OpenView 6.4, 7.01

Microsoft SMS 2.0, 2003

Microsoft MOM 2005

IBM Director Agent and Upward Integration scenarios

Full Director Agent (Level 2)

IBM System Director or TPM

Server

Hardware Instrumentation

(common CIM enablement)

IBM Director Base Agent

Series OS Specific Support

Level 1 Agent

Level 2 Agent

Microsoft SMS / MOM

Tivoli Inventory

/ TEC…

Standalone, scriptable tools

CA Unicenter



CAS Dir

Agent Manager (Centralized Agent

Information)

Shared Security

Model

Shared Subagent

Deployment

Single Port

Health CheckAuto- Restart

Single Agent

(Multiple Subagents )

Shared incoming port (firewall friendly)

Common authentication & credential management

Single agent runtime

footprint, performance, availability (watchdog restart), identity, common services

Single agent management system

Agent health/status reporting

Subagent add/remove/update/start/stop

Supports native and java agents

Existing agents can be integrated

Shared subagents

E.g. CIT scanner data is cached, shared

TCM TPM TPC

Common Agent Services for Director and Tivoli

Network

Level 1


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Server Installation

Similar

Tasks

Director 5.x Product -> 6.1 Componentization Common / Platform Specific and Unifying common tasks

Platform

Specific

• Grouping Functions • Tasking / Scheduling Security Functions

• Discover BC, Storage, OS • Discover all resources Discover Functions

• Inventory BC, Storage, OS • Inventory Software Inventory Monitors

Status BC, Storage, OS • Resource Monitor Process Management

Config BC, Storage, OS Asset ID, Network

Function

System Accounts

Update BC, Sysem X Software Distribution File Transfer

Remote Control Remote Session Authorization

Event Functions Rack Client MSCS Client

SNMP Client CIM Client BladeCenter Client

Storage Client RSA Client HMC Client

Console Installation

• View Group, Tasks, MOs • Discover Preference Security Preference

• Inventory Query • Inventory View Inventory Monitors

• Hardware Status Task • Resource Monitor Task Process Manager Task

Configuration BladeCenter • Configuration RSA Task Storage Configuration Task

AssetID Task Network Config Task System Accounts Task

Update Task Software Distribution Task Import Packages

Remote Control Task Remote Session Task File Transfer Task

SNMP Browser CIM Browser Task MSCS Browser



AIX

I5OS

SwitchStorage

Simplify Lifecycle Tasks Across STG Resources

BladeCenter

Automation Tasks

Status Health Tasks

Discovery Tasks

Update Tasks

Virtual Tasks

Configuration Tasks

Remote Control Tasks

LinuxWindows

z/VMVMWareHMC

iBMC



Base IBM Systems Director 6.1 Offering

IBM Systems Director 6.1 Base Product Overview

Core Services Layer (shared with Tivoli)

•Main Console •Management Services Agent Services

User Administration Command Line / WS* Task Integration

Brand Specific Enablement

Cross

Resource

Tasks

Platform

Specific

Lifecycle

Platform

Tasks

The IBM Systems Director 6.1 product provides the install packages to provide the out of box systems management tasks to perform the lifecycle operations of their STG platforms. Once the customer has the base product successfully integrated into their infrastructure, additional value added capabilities are separately available to extend the base offering.

Modular System x Power Systems Power Systems (i5OS)

Enterprise ZStorage Modular BladeCenter

Automation ManagerStatus Manager

Discovery Manager

Update Manager Virtualization Manager

Configuration Manager Remote Control Manager



Base IBM Systems Director 6.1 Offering

Advanced Manager and Tivoli Extensions

Core Services Layer (shared with Tivoli)

Automation ManagerStatus Manager

Discovery Manager

Update Manager Virtual Manager

Configuration Manager Remote Control Manager

•Main Console •Management Services Agent Services

User Administration Command Line / WS* Task Integration

Brand Specific Enablement

Cross

Resource

Tasks

Platform

Specific

TPMfOSD

ITUAM (CIMS)

ITM Extension

TPM for Software Manager

WPAR Manager

Active Energy Manager

Availability Manager

Image Manager

3rd Party Extensions

Tivoli

Managers

Separately

Available}

3rd Party

System x System P System i

System zStorage BladeCenter



Simplify Getting Started – New Install, Upgrades



Welcome Page links you to managing your platform…



Converged & Simplified Resource Views

Unique views for viewing resource data,

status and relationships seamlessly

from on console

Extensibility for 3rd Party Hardware

Vendors to seamlessly integrate

Etc…



Backup

© IBM Corporation 2008SMS – Download Data

Director 5.20 Download Statistics

Monthly Download Site Signup* Statistics, by Geography

01/07 02/07 03/07 04/07 05/07 06/07 07/07 08/07 09/07 10/07 11/07 12/07 YTD

AG 2089 1851 2081 1914 1764 1772 1763 1816 1947 2352 2332 1966 23647

AP 789 708 745 635 771 807 766 791 857 1049 1225 1145 10293

EMEA

NE1473 1324 1333 1260 1248 1319 1328 1218 1362 1616 1834 1439 16754

EMEA

SW510 577 534 506 467 580 457 379 495 585 625 544 6259

Total

Signup4864 4464 4698 4316 4257 4484 4320 4204 4661 5602 6015 5094 56980

* Signup’s: includes end-user page visits, and may have resulted in none, one, or multiple downloads

AG: 41.5% AP: 18.1% EMEA: 40.4%

Down-

Loads34050 25690 28958 24974 25094 17282 13553 12113 13637 16422 21043 14097 246917



Packaging and Post Deliverables(Closing with Marketing on Platform Packaging DCR58)



IBM Systems Director 6.1 – Server Deployed/Installed

6.1 Management Server

LWI / ISC

Core Director

Management Services

Console Services

Endpoint Services

Discovery Remote Tasks

Configuration

Updates

System Health

Virtualization

System x System P System i

System zStorage BladeCenter

Automation Manager

Status Manager

Discovery Manager

Update Manager

Virtual Manager

Configuration Manager

Remote Control Manager

Core Director(TPM/USMi)

Common

Build

Platform Specific Build

Initial

Install

All Managers, Core Director,

Platform Specific Enablement

version 6.1.0

The base director server

feature contains the version

and installed as property file

(Rob Warren)



IBM Systems Director 6.1 – Packaging Modely

Discovery Manager

……

Status Manager

……

Configuration Manager

……

Automation Manager

……

Update Manager

……

Remote Control Manager

……

Virtual Manager

……

Core Director Server

……

Storage Specific Director Plug-ins

……

BladeCenter and System X Specific Plug-ins

……

System P / I Specific Plug-ins

……

System Z Specific Plug-ins

……



IBM Systems Director 6.1 post GA Updates via Web (Example..

Still being worked)

Possible Packaging solutions for the brand and common….

fsp

System X Director 6.1.1

System X Director 6.1.2

System P Director 6.1.1

System P Director 6.1.2

Virtual Manager 6.1.1


Relocation Manager 6.1.1

Core Director Server 6.1.1


Modular Director 6.1.2

iBMC VMWare

AIX

Power Director 6.1.2

HMC

Core Director Server

6.1.1

View Available Updates for 6.1 Management Sever

Includes Update 1 & now neptune

WPar?

Enterprise Z 6.1.1

zVM VM

Dependency VM 6.1.2



Iterative Development: Focus on Green Threads



Key High Level Customer Scenarios (Green Threads)

From a single console / management stack, the IBM server administrator can to the following with IBM Systems Director base offering and the brand specific integration to manage their platform resources (physical and virtual):

– Show the administrator the discovered managed resources in the network along with the detailed inventory and relationships with the other resources in the network

– Tell the administrator when the managed resources are having a problem and provide the capability to drill down to the source of the problem which may include the launch in context from a single console the element manager tools.

– Tell the administrator when a system managed resource need to be updated and schedule the install for the update on the managed resources

– Allow the administrator to visualize the live data metrics across both physical and virtual system p resources and set critical thresholds that will notify when reached

– Allow the administrator to configure the setting of one resource and, if needed, create a configuration plan that can be applied to one or more similar resources.

– Allow the administrator to incrementally add extension (new managers) to the base offering to provide more advanced tools to manage their platform resources

Supported IBM platform resources include HMC, IVM, VIOS, Storage Devices, Network Devices, BladeCenter, Power Blade, Windows, AIX, i5/OS, pLinux, xLinux, zLinux, z/VM, Windows, MSVS, VMWare(Neptune/Pluto), Xen, System X Servers (RSA/BMC), System P Servers (FSP), etc.



Our Base Infrastructure and Packaging


LWI / ISC

Core Platform Services Infrastructure (based on USMi)

Hatteras Web Console (via Browser)

Common Services Infrastructure

L2 CAS Agent

Common Agent Services

Management Services

Console Services

Endpoint Services

Core Console View

Web Browsers > 6.1 Console

High Level Packages•Management Server Install Package

includes the console, management

server, endpoint services and LWI.

•Level 2 Advanced Platform

Management based on CAS.

•Level 1 Base Platform Management

based on CIM.

Core Platform Services•Console Services: Extends ISC with

Web Based Graphical User Interfaces

for welcome screens, resource

navigation, base / advanced discovery

tasks, inventory tasks, update tasks,

basic status/health tasks, basic

automation tasks, update tasks and base

security settings.

•Management Server Services:

Provides OSGi components and

services for base discovery

(inventory/database), tasking,

scheduling, grouping, events,

notification, acquisition, install/distribute,

security, standard endpoint services…

•Base Agent Services: Discovery,

security, common subagent services,

etc..

L1 CIM Agent

CIM Core

Pluggable Extension Points for Platform

Specific (BC, HMC, X, I, P, Z, Storage ) and

Hatteras Specific TasksHigh Level Install Packages



Iterative Development Leveraging Componentization


LWI / ISC




L2 CAS Agent


Management Services

Console Services

Endpoint Services


Green Thread 1• Allow the administrator to

visualize and perform an

operation on the discovered

resources

Use Cases1.Installation of the base product

deliverables console/server and

agent.

2. From the browser, login into the

console

3. Perform the resource discovery

including inventory collection

4. Visualize the resource from the

console

5. Launch a single operation against the

resource

Milestones:

• Steps 1 thru 5 with atleast one

resource type

L1 CIM Agent

CIM Core




Discovery

Discovery

Core Console View

Remote TasksRemote Tasks


visualize and perform an

operation on the discovered

resources

Use Cases1.Installation of the base product

deliverables console/server and

agent.

2. From the browser, login into the

console

3. Perform the resource discovery

including inventory collection

4. Visualize the resource from the

console

5. Launch a single operation against the

resource

Milestones:

• Steps 1 thru 5 with atleast one

resource type

• Stage in, as appropriate, the rest

of the resources



Staged Content Integration / Milestone Delivery


LWI / ISC



L2 CAS Agent


Management Services

Console Services

Endpoint Services

L1 CIM Agent

CIM Core




Discovery Remote Tasks

Green Thread 2• What manageable resources are

having problems

Configuration

Updates

System Health

Virtualization



Manager Tasks

Core Console ViewGreen Thread 2• What manageable resources are

having problems


configure the manageable

resources

Green Thread 4• Keep my manageable resource

updated

Green Thread 5…Iteration6?•Use base director to provide out-of-

box management for BC-S

•Virtualization…



Director 6.1 Value by

Brand



Objectives for following this section

High level view of how current investment meets brand needs for the next major release of IBM Systems Director (aka Hatteras)

High level split between common and platform specific code along with the Hatteras visible function by brand

Progress towards service oriented architecture / componentization

Conclusions



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290 systems found:


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Additional configuration is needed for IBM Systems Director plug-ins

Add Readiness Warning:Show warning ONLY if a plug-in is not ready. The link

would show the Manage tab.

We would use that same aggregated status from the

Manage tab to show in the Start page. If no warnings,

then the link wouldn‟t show up.



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Discovery Manager

Welcome

Task Index

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Automation

Availability

Capacity

Inventory

IT Infrastructure

Planning

Power and Energy

Reporting

Release Management

Security

System Configuration

System Status and Health

Task Management

Settings

Hatteras Discovery Manager

Manage the discovery of your systems and inventory in your environment. Discover your data center,

configure access to the systems, then collect inventory.

8 users do not have access to any systems

26 total users are defined

4 roles are defined

Common Tasks

Request access for „no access‟ systems

Manage identities

Common Tasks

Manage users

Manage roles

Add a role

Access and Authentication

Users and Roles

Discovery Manager

Access for 290 systems:

Discovery and Inventory

Common Tasks

Basic Discovery

Advanced system discovery

Collect and view inventory

Navigate resources

Last discovery complete: 08/02/2007 11:23 pm.

290 systems:


35 systems with no inventory collected

15 no access120 partial access150 full access



Status Summary

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Task Management

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Hatteras Status Summary

Interesting links to resource views, or important tasks

2 systems

6 systems

1 system

34 systems

Status tasks

Common tasks

Status

Management tasks, important resource counts, etc…

Searching, Other Summary info

Status Manager

Use this text area to describe the kinds of things they can do with this manager.

Update status for 43 monitored systems:

Task 1

Task 2

Task 3

Task 4

Task 1

Task 2

Task 3

Task 4

Task 5

Task 6

Search bar to find stuff, other summarized data…



Updates Summary

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Task Management

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Hatteras Updates Summary

Next scheduled check for updates: 7/26/07 4:00 am

2 systems

6 systems

1 system

34 systems

Monitor Tasks

Automation Plan Tasks

Monitor Systems

Check for Updates

View Updates

Update Manager

Manage updates by first doing a check for updates to gain update information. Individual updates can then be located using a search or group, or managed by running an update task.

Update status for 43 monitored systems:

Setup system compliance checks

Show all compliance issues

Create an update group

Show all update groups (5)

Last check for updates: 7/25/07 4:00 am

Show updates needed by systems

Show updates installed on systems

Install updates

Uninstall updates

Import updates

Export updates



Updates Summary

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Task Management

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Hatteras Updates Summary



Automation Summary

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Automation

Availability

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Inventory

IT Infrastructure

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Power and Energy

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Release Management

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Task Management

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Hatteras Automation Summary

Manage the automation in your environment by viewing the scheduled tasks, working with your automation plans, and checking which events you are not automating.

2 of 500 Critical events had no automation

32 of 360 Warning events had no automation

23 automation plans have run

5 automation plans have never run

2 automation plans are not active

2 jobs failed with errors

15 jobs scheduled

26 jobs completed successfully

Scheduling Tasks

View all failed jobs

View scheduled and completed jobs

Schedule a job

Automation Plan Tasks

View all automation plans

Create automation plan

View event actions

View event filters

Event Tasks

View events not automated

View event log

View active problems

View live data thresholds

Scheduled Jobs

Automation Plans

Events

Automation Manager

30 day summary:

18 threshold events have no automation



Template

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Task Management

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Hatteras Virtualization Summary

2 critical

6 warning

1 informational

34 OK

Common Views

Common tasks

Status

Manage and View

Setup and Configuration

Virtualization Manager

This summary shows virtualization groups and helps you manage your virtual environment.

Problem status for 43 virtual servers:

Virtual servers and hosts

Virtual farms

Virtual server templates

Relocation plans

Create a virtual server

Create a virtual farm

Create a virtual server template

Create an image template

Relocate one or more virtual servers

Set up Virtualization Manager

18 image templates

10 hosts with 43 virtual servers

5 virtual farms

23 virtual server templates

Add a system

Set up shared storage (used for relocation, availability management, image management)

Install Virtualization agent plug-in on agents



BladeCenter Management

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Task Management

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Hatteras BladeCenter Management

Manage the BladeCenters in your environment. S

Interesting bladecenter configuratoin stuff

Common Tasks

View live data

Check for updates

Common Tasks

Configuration Templates

Configuration Plans

Management

Configuration

BladeCenter Management

Management holes for 18 BladeCenters:

Setup Additional Plug-ins

Common Tasks

View I/O module plug-ins

Blades and chassis

Discover BladeCenters

You have switches that require I/O module plug-ins

18 are required to configure your switches:

5 not installed5 installed, but not registered8 ready

3 BladeCenters do not have thresholds activated2 Blade resources do not have a compliance policyMore???



Configuration Summary



Active Energy Summary



Virtualization Summary

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Task Management

Settings


Manage the security in your environment by requesting access to any locked systems and managing the users and roles in your environment.


3 users are not assigned any roles


15 systems are locked

26 systems are partially unlockedCommon Tasks

Unlock Systems

Edit Credentials

Common Tasks

Add a user

Assign a role to a user

Add a role

Locked Systems

Users and Roles

Availability Manager




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Task Management

Settings


Isolation Manager

Setup Isolation capabilities here.

Common Tasks

Maintain database of signatures…

View security alerts…

Isolation

Integrity alerts by server and user ID:

Setup Tasks

Set up isolation policies…

View my security topology…

Set up security alerts




Welcome

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Automation

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Task Management

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Deployment Manager

Manage the security in your environment by requesting access to any locked systems and managing the users and roles in your environment.


3 users are not assigned any roles


15 systems are locked

26 systems are partially unlockedCommon Tasks

Unlock Systems

Edit Credentials

Common Tasks

Add a user

Assign a role to a user

Add a role

Locked Systems

Users and Roles

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